Greener Horizons By Author Edna Hunneysett – Shop

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Greener Horizons, a follow-up from the very popular Greener Pastures and Brown Blazers, is a semi-autobiographical intriguing tale, revealing the twists and turns of a young woman’s life after leaving the confines of a Convent grammar boarding school. Emma Holmes, with Faith, her best friend, leaves family behind and moves to an industrial town to begin working life with expectations of spending money, having fun, meeting boyfriends and eventually, being married. In reality, she becomes involved with a questionable young man and is thwarted by her father who steps in, over-riding her plans because ‘it is for the best.’ In another town and separated from her friend, Emma eventually meets her Mr Right. Her mother asks if he is a Catholic (he has never been inside a Catholic church) and his mother wants to know what he will do about having children. Will life live up to her expectations if it means being many miles from home; communicating by letter only; and making ends meet on one salary?

Go down memory lane and enjoy this fascinating life story of a young woman in the early 1960s.

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Description

After the death of her father, Edna Hunneysett’s eighth (and last) child was born. Wanting to have something to tell her about him, she began writing the story of her life from the age of two. Edna was brought up with six siblings in poverty on an isolated farm on the North Yorkshire Moors with no mod cons. The family finally got a tractor when she was aged ten and that became their method of transport, even using it to travel to church in the village and parking it on the village green! When looking to get the book published Edna tried many publishers unsuccessfully. Her youngest daughter became seriously ill at thirteen and was suicidal. At the time Edna was studying for a degree by distance learning. She decided to study for her Masters so she could research support for families dealing with mental illness, including support from their church community. She was given a distinction and the hope that it would be published in some form. She went on to write her account of six years of her daughter’s illness and the devastating effect on their family. This became the first of three books Edna published on the subject of mental health. After her daughter’s recovery, Edna went on to work alongside her to revisit the book about Edna’s early life. This time she approached it as fiction, being inspired by rather than recording exact details of her family’s lives. This book eventually went on to be published and a further three in the series have followed. The fifth and final instalment is due in the summer of 2025. Edna lives in Middlesbrough with her husband of over sixty years, Ray. She is the oldest member of our family of Book Dragon authors and we’re proud to stock her books in our Stockton shop and on our website.

Find out more about Edna Hunneysett by visiting her social media, which can be found here https://www.facebook.com/edna.hunneysett

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